How do you dry your washing?

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Stupid question I know but we are having real trubble getting our wahing dry at the moment! Tumble dryer has packed up-plus there is a lot that can't be dryer in there any way......so how, where and on what do you dry yours?
We need to buy something else to use as we just have a very basic over the bath airer that you can hardly fit anything on! Does anyone have helpfull ideas or recomendations? Fed up with washing ALL over the house

cheap nightime 'economy 7' electricity definitely still exists. You usually pay slightly more for the daytime rate & condiderably less at night. You need to have the right sort of meter to have it and also use more than about 25-30% of your electricity at night for it to be worthwhile.

Laundret of late! I have been taking all the washing to the laundet and washing and drying every thing,it only takes 40 mins to do a weeks washing and i've got a man and 3 children!

outisde or airer in front of radiator. In thos eweeks when it is too warm for heating but too cold for dring I have taken the uniforms down to the launderette if they aren't dry by sunday afty.

got three loads dried on the line today

i dry everything on the washing line all year

unless its raining it always dries

I use the antonius system from ikea but you do need wall space

One of these. Brilliant. We have a very high ceiling in our kitchen, so attached it there. Takes a load of washing, hoist it up then it's dry by the morning (usually).

Or the line on a dry day. Have a tumble drier which my mother insisted would be absolutely essential with children in the house, but we rarely turn it on. Waste of money.

I also have a pulley, like snickersnack. Works brilliantly as it sits at the top of the room where it's warm. We have ours in a utility room so there's no cooking smells - I did once have a friend who kept hers over the cooker

Takes a full load and dries really quickly. I sometimes put towels and bedding in the tumble drier.

we have a pulley too and it's great. It's above a radiator, and we have very high ceilings. It used to be in the kitchen, and some cooking smells would get on the clothes (not all, usually just frying)
we do have good venilation (=draughts!) which stops damp being a problem.

i have always wanted one of them pulleys but our cielings aren't very high

Just wrote a long reply and then lost it all grr

Anyway the gist was this, I use minky type thing too as well as this that I hang anything that can be put on a hanger.

You wouldn't have wanted to miss out on that exciting post, would you?

I don't know if this is any good, but it looks fab. Can't make up my mind whether to get one and wonder if it costs any less to run than a tumbledrier

oh i was gonna get one of them but didnb't think it was worth it cos i can't see how it can be much cheaper to use

It says it uses "3.5 times less Energy than a Tumble Dryer per Hour", but doesn't say how many hours it takes.

Exactly tooticky, that was my reservation.

I hang up the clothes on a clothes horse first, then air them off in the tumble-drier. They never have to be in the tumble drier for more than 20-30 mins, depending on how long I've hung them on the clothes horse. Well if it takes 2 hours on the tornado, that's prob. dearer than clothing rack + tumble drier.

I put mine on an indoor clothes airer overnight with a dehumidifier on. In the morning the clothes are dry enough to iron. I have Economy 7 electricity so it is cheaper overnight. I recommended this to my hairdresser and she thinks it is fab too.

Oh, and I always give my clothes an extra spin in the washing machine.

It makes a huge difference but it is an old machine.

I have 2 huge airers that I put in the bath so we cant use the bath but have to use the shower in our en suite!

This saves us heat and water!

Shirts and work jackets get hung in the airing cupboard.

We don't have a tumble drier as we don't want to sacrifice a cupboard in the kitchen. At this time of year the dining room is full of steaming clothes on airers.

If buying an airer, choose one which is held up by a strut which locks across the bottom rungs. Those which have an inverted v-shaped clip at the side always seem to collapse if loaded with a full load of washing.